Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 87% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 31 May 2072 at 22:18.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2072 after 25 days on 30 June 2072 at 10:21.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 5.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1785" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 895 of Meeus index or 1848 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes and it is 1 hour and 40 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 5 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 4 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠285° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠313.1°.
11 days since point of perigee on 23 May 2072 at 23:46 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 June 2072 at 12:42 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 401 442 km (249 444 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 216 km (251 168 mi).
9 days after ascending node on 25 May 2072 at 15:57 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 8 June 2072 at 10:43 in ♓ Pisces.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 2 June 2072 at 16:38 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.669° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.692° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 June 2072 at 00:01 in ♋ Cancer.
9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 16 June 2072 at 09:57 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov